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  1. Yes we do, I use it a lot as it means I can keep out of the kitchen and I don’t get in Sheila’s way!
  2. Good evening everyone I’ve now almost finished refurbishing my cellar. Once the woodwork has been painted I’ll have a model railway room. Apart from the plastering, I’ve done all the work myself. Throughout the refurb I’ve kept a note of all big spends and it’s taken me about 5 years on and off, but it’s all come in at under £2500. However, in that 5 year period, I’ve also done a lot of work in the garden and workshop too. Here’s a couple of photos I took today. The first one is stood beside the French doors looking into the room. This one is looking towards the French doors, excuse the pile of spare flooring, I’ve not found a home for it yet. The room is approximately 11ft 3in by 15ft 6ft, so not a bad space at all really.
  3. A very pleasant and productive afternoon in my workshop, building this. I found it a bit tricky at first and it took me a while to realise I needed to file the rails at the bottom, as there was a slight burr, where they’d been cut, before I could get them to slide into the chairs. Once this was done, it was very easy to finish it, taking about 1hr 45 min. The rest will be built when I begin laying the track. There is a burr on the top of the rail as well, this was also removed.
  4. My first order arrived this morning, I’m going to enjoy building one of these kits tomorrow afternoon, when my eldest grandson drops by for his weekly model making session.
  5. Again, when I was an apprentice in the training centre, I along with many others had long(ish) hair. We had the option of either getting our hair cut, wearing a hair net or putting it into a ponytail, I chose the latter.
  6. I also don’t were my wedding ring when doing any sort of manual work. When I was an apprentice, I almost lost a finger due to wearing a ring, thankfully, it was one that I’d made from a piece stainless steel strip, so there was a small gap underneath it. When it snagged on something, I was jerked backwards and the ring came off, leaving me flat on my back. I never found the ring.
  7. I can still remember the smell that met you as you entered the main forge where small steel ingots were formed into railway wheel blanks! Something like this, I know many folk who think that metal doesn’t smell, well it does when it’s heated up!
  8. Well, despite having all my notifications on and not ignoring this thread, I still can’t get it to show on my followed list. I don’t know what’s going on there at all? Even clicking on ‘content I’ve posted in’ doesn't show this one! Very strange indeed. This post doesn’t even show up on my list of recent posts! Hoorah, I’ve finally sorted it, it was just as Jamie had mentioned, I’d inadvertently pressed the ‘ignore this topic’ button doh!
  9. I've spent the last few weeks trying to get back onto this thread. For some reason, it disappeared!
  10. Back to the school year’s discussion, I also hated school, I couldn’t wait to leave. Once Easter had /even an gone, us 5th years (year 11 in modern speak) could stay at home to revise and just go in for the exams, which is exactly what I did! I hated school so much that I didn’t even go in for the last day. I didn’t do much revising though, although I did get decent results, instead I spent the next 4 months trying (unsuccessfully) to teach myself to play the piano, which had been given to us by a neighbour, but I could play (term used very loosely) a couple of tunes by the end of the summer. The ability to read music properly might have helped! The piano was given away when we had to move house.
  11. Me too, there great machines to work on/with.
  12. I’ve got several of the storage units by this company. For the price, they are all well planned, we’ll made and easy to construct.
  13. I tried McDonalds once……………. That was enough
  14. We’ve been in this house now for over 43 years now!
  15. Or even, a 2lb sausage in a 1lb skin!
  16. Here’s a couple of photos of a modified and motorised PECO Turntable, which has a fully working, home made indexing system. It has a permanently live bridge, a necessity for DCC sound fitted locos, which automatically changes polarity when the loco moves off the bridge. It’s been built as a stand-alone unit and once fitted into the layout, it will be able to be removed for repair or maintenance. The turntable as seen from above, show the four exit roads. An oblique shot showing the bridge extension and operators hut. Finally, a cropped shot of the control panel, showing the control buttons and indicator LEDs, note the bridge extension is marked on the rotary control knob. This acts as an indicator for lining up where the bridge will stop.
  17. Below are a couple of photos of a motorised PECO turntable kit. The bridge has been modified, I’ve also designed and built the indexing system. The control panel was a custom made item and has been hand painted. The figures are modified Dapol items.
  18. On the subject of nuisance parking, some neighbours of ours from across the road came home to find a car parked across their drive. Tony knocked onto see if it was anyone’s who was visiting us, it wasn’t so he did the same to several houses down the street to no avail. The car in question wasn’t a very big car, so he, me and several others moved the car lifted the car up and moved it about 200 yards down the road and left it parked with the drivers door right next to a lamp post. We know they could get in via the passenger door, but with it being a small car, that would be very awkward. We did think of turning it over, but that would have been criminal damage, this was we just made it known that we weren’t pleased with their selfishness.
  19. When I worked in the gas industry, we had a guy on our team who was always in the office and very rarely went out. We all called him ‘pilot light’ although others called him Velcro, as I couldn’t get his @rse of the seat.
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